Tag: dads
Jesus’ earthly dad, St. Joseph – often overlooked – is honored...
Gloria Falcão Dodd, University of Dayton
The United States celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June. Many...
Babies don’t come with instruction manuals, so here are 5 tips...
Denise Bodman, Arizona State University and Bethany Bustamante Van Vleet, Arizona State University
Babies don’t come with instruction manuals....
College students with young kids – especially mothers – find themselves...
Claire Wladis, CUNY Graduate Center
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
We found that college students who have...
Nurturing dads raise emotionally intelligent kids – helping make society more...
Kevin Shafer, Brigham Young University
When my oldest son, now nearly 13, was born in July of 2008, I...
How Hemingway felt about fatherhood
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
Ernest Hemingway was affectionately called “Papa,” but what kind of dad was he?
In my role as Associate Editor of the...
Why are sitcom dads still so inept?
Erica Scharrer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
From Homer Simpson to Phil Dunphy, sitcom dads have long been known for being bumbling and inept.
But it wasn’t...
Why do kids call their parents ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’?
Bethany Van Vleet, Arizona State University and Denise Bodman, Arizona State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
